re: #18 BongCrodny

Although I never saw the paperwork to confirm it, I was told by a supervisor that each one of those little packages cost $9.

$9 for a fucking screw.

While I’d always swung to the left on social issues, that was probably the single incident most likely responsible for my understanding that “national security” and “bloated military budget” are not a good match.

$9 for a screw? That ain’t shit. On the nuclear side of the Navy we had an almost unlimited budget. I had a cofferdam and doghouse built to empty a nuclear valve CD39. It only cost 4 million dollars. Anybody that doesn’t think the Navy could cut 10% of their bloated budget doesn’t understand the system.